If another driver wants to pass your vehicle, what should you do?
- Slow down and leave room. ✓
- Signal the driver to pass.
- Pull over.
- Honk your horn.
Answer: A. Slow down and leave room.
Slow down and leave room so the other driver can pass you safely.
Why this is the answer
The truck handbook's sharing-the-road section says that when smaller, faster vehicles are passing, you should be courteous. It tells you to reduce speed enough that the passing vehicle can move back in front of you quickly and safely. That is why the correct action is to ease off and create space rather than trying to control the other driver's move. The passage is about being passed, not about directing traffic or stopping.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Signal the driver to pass. — Signalling another driver to pass is not what the handbook describes; your signals are meant to show your own turning, slowing or stopping intentions, and when you are being passed you simply slow and leave room.
- C. Pull over. — Pulling over is not required by the passage: it says to slow enough for the passing vehicle to fit in safely, not to stop or leave the road.
- D. Honk your horn. — Honking is not mentioned as a response to being passed, and the handbook's direction is to be courteous and make room.
Remember it
If someone is coming around you, your job is to make the gap bigger: ease off the speed and leave room.